Velocity Europe 2011 Schedule

Below are the confirmed and scheduled talks at Velocity Europe 2011 (schedule subject to change).

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We'll take a whirlwind tour through the world of web operations and try to get a handle on both why it is a challenging occupation and how to be better.

9:40-9:55 (15m)
Web Performance

Lightning Demos Tuesday

Andrew Oates (Google), Patrick Mueller (IBM, Apache)

Page Speed Online
weinre: a Debugger for the Mobile Web

9:55-10:00 (5m)
Operations and Culture

If You Can Keep Your Site Standing Up When All About You Are Falling Down…

Robert Castley (Keynote Systems)

This demo from Robert Castley, Solution Engineer and Technologist at Keynote, shows you how to design, run, and analyze a complete Web load test in 5 minutes, with time to spare for tea and biscuits.

10:00-10:05 (5m)
Keynote, Web Performance

What It Means To Deliver Exceptional Performance

Alois Reitbauer (Dynatrace)

This five-minute talk will answer questions about site performance - how to provably cut loading times to deliver exceptional user experience.

10:05-10:10 (5m)
Keynote, Web Performance

The Future of Application Performance Management

Brian Doll (SourceClear)

Web applications are being shipped faster, deployed instantly to the cloud and are catering to the ever-growing needs of a technologically connected audience.
How do you manage it all? How do you maintain high performance in your application, stay on top of your server performance and ensure your end users are getting the best service you can deliver? Find out with New Relic!

10:35-11:05 (30m)
Web Performance

The Relationship Between Faster Mobile Sites and Business KPIs: Case Studies from the Mobile Frontier

Joshua Bixby (Strangeloop Networks)

If you've been looking for compelling data that will help you make a case for investing in mobile performance, this session is a must-see. Joshua Bixby presents brand-new data in detailed case studies that show how real-world companies have optimized the performance of their mobile sites -- and as a result have experienced dramatic improvements in KPIs such as page views, conversions, and revenue.

11:05-11:20 (15m)
Keynote, Web Performance

The Velocity of Dev Ops

Jon Jenkins (Amazon.com)

The speed at which dev ops works is critical. It enables greater innovation and faster reaction in your business. Join Jon Jenkins as he talks about why it's important to iterate fast, deploy fast, be wrong a lot, and learn from your mistakes.

11:20-11:50 (30m)
Keynote, Web Performance

Betfair's Site Rebuild: Fast - We Promise

Tim Morrow (Betfair)

Faced with page load times that consistently exceeded 10 seconds, in June 2011 Betfair published a customer commitment to ensure greater clarity and transparency on key aspects of our service, including page performance. We set a target of 3 seconds and proceeded to rebuild the entire site with this target in mind.

13:00-13:45 (45m)
Operations and Culture

Monitoring Is Easy, Why Are We So Bad At It?

Theo Schlossnagle (Circonus)

When we launch services we want to make sure they are both healthy and perform well. Most people monitoring don't provide insight into either of these things.

13:50-14:35 (45m)
Operations and Culture

Massively Sharded MySQL at Tumblr

Evan Elias (Tumblr)

Sharding a huge, very active MySQL dataset can mean running into more gotchas than obvious solutions. At this session, we'll outline how, when, and why we sharded Tumblr's primary data set. We'll also cover the application logic and automation tools that we built to initially shard, split, and move billions of rows of MySQL data for millions of blogs, and the mistakes we made along the way.

14:40-15:25 (45m)
Operations and Culture

Quality of Service (QoS) for Web Applications

William Louth (Autoletics BV)

This session will demonstrate how many networking concepts and techniques related to Quality of Service (QoS) can be mapped and applied to web clients, web services, applications and runtimes providing an end-to-end resource management conceptual framework that offers resource protection (via call shaping & policing) as well as request prioritization based on contextual & dynamic classification.

15:55-16:40 (45m)
Operations and Culture

Our First DDoS attack

Cosimo Streppone (Opera Software ASA)

Your website just went down. As you try to understand what has gone wrong, you quickly realize something is different this time. There's no clear reason why your site should be down, but indeed it is.
This talk is about the story of our team's first unprepared fight
against a DDoS attack.

This talk will discuss how the web platform at ImmobilienScout24 turns
into a Continuous Delivery Platform.
Ever tried turning a waterfall based company into an agile one? This session covers both the technical and organizational challenges and shows how all parts of our company from product management through IT development and operations had to be adjusted over the last 3 years to succeed.

13:00-13:45 (45m)
Web Performance

Introducing the Amazon Silk Web Browser

Jon Jenkins (Amazon.com)

This talk will present a new way we are looking at the mobile browsing challenges at
Amazon.com. We will present data about site latency among various
classes of devices and usage of mobile versions of the site. Much
of the presentation will focus on technical approaches to dramatically
reduce web site latency for this class of users.

13:50-14:35 (45m)
Web Performance

Know Your Engines: How to Make Your JavaScript Fast

David Mandelin (Mozilla Corporation)

In order to make their programs fast, developers need to understand how the system compiles, optimizes, and runs programs. This talk will help JavaScript developers make their programs fast by popping the hood on modern JavaScript engines such as SpiderMonkey, V8, JSC, and Chakra and explaining how they work.

14:40-15:25 (45m)
Web Performance

Measuring Web Performance

Stephen Thair (DevOpsGuys)

We all talk about web performance but exactly HOW do we measure web performance, and what are the metrics we measure? How many different ways are there to measure web performance, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and which are the most appropriate at different stages of the software development lifecycle? That's what this talk will help you discover!

Mathias will illustrate how applying the DRY principle (Don’t Repeat Yourself) increases the readability, maintainability, and especially the *performance* of your JavaScript code, all while reducing its total file size. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of scripting fundamentals and the real-world consequences of your code architecture choices.

Page Speed Analysis tools provide performance metrics for web-sites, and mod_pagespeed and Page Speed Service automatically rewrite web sites by applying web performance "best practices". But exactly what is the impact on web site latency and usability from implementing these transformations? We’ll share what we’ve learned from running Page Speed and mod_pagespeed in the field.

16:45-17:30 (45m)
Web Performance

Performance Automation 101

Jeroen Tjepkema (MeasureWorks)

For optimizing web performance most of you have put to practice the "14 rules for creating high performance websites". But most IT organizations don't have the resources, time or money available to continuously fine-tune their web performance. There’s a need for a different approach, automation of web performance optimization. This session covers every aspect of performance automation and more.

10:10-10:35 (25m)

Break: Morning Break

11:50-13:00 (1h 10m)

Break: Lunch

15:25-15:55 (30m)

Break: Afternoon Break

17:45-18:45 (1h)
Event

Sponsor Gallery Reception, Sponsored by Google

Join us immediately following the sessions in Maritim II on Tuesday at Velocity Europe. Have a drink and some delectable nibbles, network with other Velocity Europe attendees, and visit our sponsors, who are leading the charge in web performance and operations.